23.06.2022
ISSUE #13 – Theses of today and tomorrow
As the academic year draws to a close, ISSUE invites you to discover a selection of exemplary theses written by graduates from the various master's programs at HEAD – Genève in 2021…
Category : long read
08.06.2022
(Un)learning from Jakarta
Conversation between farid rakun from ruangrupa and the students from the Work.Master
On the 18th of June, 2022, documenta fifteen will open its doors in Kassel. The Indonesian collective ruangrupa run this new edition of the German five-year event, seeking to embed it in…
21.01.2022
Jouer à être humain
An interview with Sylvie Boisseau, Frank Westermeyer and David Zerbib
Sylvie Boisseau, Frank Westermeyer and David Zerbib publish the ebook Jouer à être humain (Playing at being human), the result of a two-year research project (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) which brings together…
25.10.2021
What’s Wrong with the Vienna Declaration?
Artists are largely absent from both the process and the content of the Vienna Declaration on Artistic Research. In their critique of this international policy document, Florian Cramer and Nienke Terpsma recall…
18.06.2021
The secrets of a film script
An interview with director Carmen Jaquier
It is rare to read excerpts from a film script that is still in post-production. Between two editing sessions, Carmen Jaquier discusses the writing of her second feature film, Les Paradis de…
08.06.2021
All Monuments Must Fall
Thinking Through the Proposition. By Gene Ray
In this introduction, Gene Ray (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) reviews a series of recent events, mostly related to the Black Lives Matter movement, which may suggest that a new iconoclasm has begun.…
08.06.2021
Dismantle Louis Agassiz
Embedded racism at the near side of the moon. By Roman Karrer
In this text, Roman Karrer examines the way in which the names of streets, squares or mountains lend such places a symbolic dimension. The name of the botanist and zoologist Louis Agassiz,…
08.06.2021
Justice Afoot
Communing with the Friends of Acoma. By Gene Ray
One night in 1998, a collective amputated the foot of an equestrian statue of Juan de Oñate in New Mexico. In this article, Gene Ray examines the multiple echoes of this iconoclastic…
08.06.2021
Ode to an Empty Plinth
Iconoclasm by Other Means. By Gene Ray
In a 1997 issue of October journal devoted to the Situationists, T.J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith rejected the narrative that, in the early 1960s, the SI renounced art in favour of politics.…
26.05.2021
I SAY I – SHE SAYS YOU YOU, AND ME?
Shifting Pronouns, Opaque Subjects, and Raising Voices in 1960s and 1970s Italy
The following essay comes from the transcription and re-elaboration of a collective reading session Camilla Paolino proposed at Fri Art Kunsthalle in February 2020, within the framework of the exhibition Dal momento…